Error Quotes

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In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life… — Alvin Plantinga
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how… — Sister Souljah
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do… — A. R. Ammons
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people… — David Hackett Fischer
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series… — Horace Mann
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my… — Robert Owen
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. — James Agee
Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt — Lev Landau
It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall… — Pope Pius IX
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull… — Haile Selassie
It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. — Heather Mills
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. — Murray Rothbard
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.… — Robert K. Merton
Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage… — Edgar Cayce
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... — Benjamin Rush
That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error. — Jerry Pournelle
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist — Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Woman must be put back in her place. Manâ€™s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease… — Boyd Rice
We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information,… — Simon Singh

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